Listen to the Greys’ New Album, ‘If Anything’ (Premiere)

Greys don’t mince words in their Bandcamp profile, merely saying they “are a loud band from Toronto.” Named a “Band to Watch” by Stereogum in December 2012, Greys took the summer of 2013 to record its debut full-length album, If Anything, out next week in the U.S. via Carpark Records.

The 11-track, 35-minute record bursts from the gate with “Guy Picciotto,” a 90-second high-wire act named for the D.C. hardcore stalwart in Rites of Spring and Fugazi. “There goes my hero! He lives right down the street,” vocalist-guitarist Shehzaad Jiwani shouts over careening guitars and a thudding bassline.